JPH09134394A - Device for retrieving maintenance component - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device capable of extremely efficiently specifying the component number of target maintenance component. SOLUTION: Storage data read out from a 2nd storage part 2c are retrieved based upon the component number of maintenance component and various specification information inputted from an input part 1, the retrieved data are stored in a 4th storage part 2e and the number of extracted pieces of storage data is displayed on a display part 3. Consequently whether the number of pieces of data is converged down to a number suitable for specifying the component number of the target maintenance component displayed on the drawing display screen of the display part 3 or not can be immediately known.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention belongs to the technical field of a maintenance parts search apparatus suitably used for searching maintenance parts of building equipment such as elevators.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Maintenance and management of building facilities such as elevators is often carried out by maintenance staff of a contracted maintenance company who regularly visits customer buildings. In the process of maintenance and inspection work, for example, when it is necessary to replace a part as a result of inspection of an elevator, the maintenance staff must specify the part number of the part to be replaced and place an order with the purchaser.

In this case, the work of specifying the part number of the part is
Drawing of maintenance parts in order of part number by device Order of part number by device Alignment of drawings of maintenance parts for each model of the maintenance parts ledger or elevator, and dozens of models An operator searches for a drawing of a part to be replaced based on the part name from a ledger of books and specifies the shape, size, etc. of the part by comparing with the actual product. In recent years, a parts search device and a search method have made a great progress. For example, in the field of automobile maintenance and home electric appliance repair, information on maintenance parts is stored in a CD-ROM and the CD-ROM is utilized for the search. As a result, the efficiency of the work of specifying the parts to be replaced has been improved.

[0004]

By the way, in building facilities such as elevators, the specifications are determined by the customer's request, the structure of the building, etc. Therefore, even if the parts have the same name, the shape and size of the parts , Specifications are different,
It is characterized by a large number of types of parts. Therefore, information on maintenance parts for building equipment is stored in a CD-ROM,
-When considering the use of ROM for searching, it is not enough to limit the search target range by the name of the maintenance part. It is necessary to search the information of the maintenance part having the same specifications as the part to be replaced and Although it is necessary to confirm the drawings and specify the part numbers of the parts to be replaced, a great deal of labor and time are required for this confirmation work, resulting in a reduction in the work efficiency of the maintenance and inspection work of the building equipment. The present invention has been made in order to solve the above problems in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a maintenance part search device capable of extremely efficiently specifying the part number of a target maintenance part. .

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention has a storage means in which a part number of each maintenance part, its name, and various specifications peculiar to the part are associated and stored in advance. Then, the maintenance part information read out from the storage means is searched based on the name of the maintenance part input from the input means and the information of various specifications, and the number of the maintenance part information narrowed down by the information is searched. When a command for displaying the image information of the maintenance parts on the display screen together with the information of various specifications and displaying the narrowed down image information of the maintenance parts is input from the input means, the image information is displayed on the display screen together with the part number of the maintenance parts. The display is made in sequence.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a microcomputer including a memory and a CRT.
It can be configured by a display device such as a (cathode ray display tube) or LCD (liquid crystal display device), and a touch panel input device attached to the operation panel or the display device in which the operation buttons are arranged.

[0007]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an elevator maintenance component search device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is an input unit for inputting various data, command information and the like, 2a to 2f are all storage units, and 2a is an R storing a processing program executed by a control unit described later.
A main storage unit composed of an OM and a RAM used for temporary storage in the process of input data and data processing, 2b is a first storage unit for storing image information of maintenance parts of an elevator, and 2c is the maintenance parts. Second storage unit for storing the specification information of 2), a third storage unit 2d for storing the part name and specification item name of the maintenance part, and 2e for the part name and specification item of the maintenance part specified by the part name. The fourth storage unit 2f that temporarily stores the information is the fifth information that temporarily stores the information extracted by searching the individual information of the maintenance parts stored in the fourth storage unit 2e with the data of the specification item. The storage unit 3 displays a table in which various maintenance parts information is organized, and the display unit 4 displays image information of the maintenance parts, and 4 prints various maintenance parts information as fixed information on recording paper or the like. , Output to be transferred as electronic information to an external device , 5 denotes a control unit for executing various data processing and controls the respective units 1 to 4 and exchanging information between the aforementioned units 1-4.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing, in the form of a table, the content of a specific example of image information of the maintenance parts of the elevator which is stored in advance in the first storage section 2b. As shown in the figure, the image information of the maintenance parts includes the part number of the maintenance parts,
Although not specifically shown in the figure, image information of the drawing of the maintenance part is stored in association with each other. Similarly, FIG.
FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing, in the form of a table, the content of a specific example of the specification information of the maintenance parts for the elevator stored in advance in the second storage unit 2c. As shown in the figure, the specification information of the maintenance part is stored in association with the part number and the part name of the maintenance part and some maintenance part specifications representing the contents of the specification items of the maintenance part. Actually, the individual information of the maintenance parts shown in the figure is stored by the number of individual parts. The maintenance parts information stored in the fourth storage unit 2e and the fifth storage unit 2f has the same content as that shown in FIG. 3, although the number of information is small. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing, in the form of a table, the content of a specific example of elevator maintenance part information stored in advance in the third storage unit 2d. As shown in the figure, the component name of the maintenance component and the specification item name are stored in association with each other.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view for explaining the display contents of the search instruction screen displayed on the display unit 3. As shown in the figure, the content of the search instruction screen is the name of the part that specifies the search conditions.
A specification instructing section A, a search result display section B for displaying the result of the search according to the search condition, a specification item input supporting section C for supporting the specification information when inputting it, and a drawing for instructing the order of the drawings to be displayed. An operation information input section E including a display order instructing section D, a search key for instructing a search, a drawing display key for instructing a drawing display of the extracted part number, and an end key for instructing to end the search instruction screen. It consists of

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view for explaining the display contents of the drawing display screen displayed on the display unit 3. As shown in the figure, the display contents of the drawing display screen are shown in detail in the figure by the drawing number display portion F for displaying the number of display drawings, and for each screen divided based on the instructed number of display drawings. But not
A split screen portion G (three screens in this example) for displaying an image of a drawing, and a front and rear drawing instruction key for instructing to sequentially display the drawings of the extracted part numbers in a sequential order, and for instructing the end of the drawing display screen The operation information input section H is composed of an end key. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a specific example of the drawing image displayed on the divided screen of the divided screen portion G of the drawing display screen, for example, the divided screen G1. As shown in the figure, in this example, the maintenance part is a capacitor, and its plan view and front view are displayed.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. Figure 8 ~
FIG. 13 is a flowchart of the maintenance component search process of the maintenance component search device. The operation in the case of performing the maintenance part search will be described with reference to these figures. When performing a maintenance parts search, the operator first operates the operation panel of the input unit 1 to input a menu screen display command, and displays the menu screen on the display screen of the display unit 3 (S1). Then, it is judged whether or not an end command in the menu screen is input (S2), and if it is input, the maintenance part search process is ended. If the result of the determination in step S2 is negative, it is determined whether or not a display instruction for the search instruction screen has been input (S3). If the determination result is negative, it is determined whether or not another item on the menu screen is instructed and input (S4). If the determination result is negative, the process returns to step S2 and the determination result of step S4 is correct. Then, the instruction item target portion is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 3 (S5). Then, after performing the processing corresponding to the display content (S6), the procedure returns to step S1.

If the determination result of the step S3 is correct, a search instruction screen including the part name / specification instruction portion A and the drawing display order instruction portion D is displayed on the display screen of the display portion 3 (S7),
The part name and the number of display drawings in the work area W of the RAM are initialized (S8). It should be noted that the initial data of the part name and the number of display drawings are set to none and "3", respectively. Moving to FIG. 9,
It is judged whether or not the search is performed by inputting from the part name (S9), and if the judgment result is correct, the part name / specification instruction section A, the drawing display order instruction section D, the search result of the search instruction screen The stored data that should be displayed on the display unit B is erased, the input component name is stored in the work area W-component name of the RAM, and then displayed in the component name column A1 of the component name / specification designation unit A ( S10). Next, after the specification item name of the input part name is read from the third storage section 2d and displayed in the specification item column A2 of the part name / specification specification section A (S11), it matches the input part name. The individual information of the maintenance parts to be stored in the second storage unit 2
After being extracted from the storage data of c and stored from the tip of the empty area of the fourth storage unit 2e and the fifth storage unit 2f (S
12) and returns to step S9.

If the result of the determination in step S9 is negative, it is determined whether the data stored in the work area W-part name of the RAM is the initial value, that is, whether the data is not set (S13). ) If the result of the determination is correct, a guidance display indicating "it is an erroneous operation" is displayed on the search instruction screen, the operator is prompted to input the part name (S14), and the process returns to step S9.
If the determination result in step S13 is negative, the process moves to FIG. 10 to determine whether or not the instruction input is a command input from the search key of the search instruction screen (S15). After executing the search subroutine (S16), the process returns to step S9. If the judgment result in step S15 is negative, it is judged whether or not the instruction input is from the specification item data column A3 of the part name / specification specification section A (S17). The specification item data in the item data column A3 is erased from the work area W of the RAM (S18), and the search subroutine is executed (S19).

Next, the data of the specification item designated and input is read from the individual information of the maintenance parts stored in the fifth storage section 2f, and the number of cases for each content of each specification item is extracted (S20). Then, moving to FIG. 11, the content of each extracted specification item and the number of cases for each content are displayed in the specification item data column C1 of the specification item input support unit C in the ascending order of data number (S21). Next, it is judged whether or not the contents of the specification item displayed in the specification item data column C1 have been input (S22). If the judgment result is correct, the specification displayed in the specification item data column C1 The contents of the specification item selected and instructed by the operator according to the contents of the item are displayed in the specification item data field A3 of the part name / specification instruction section A (S2).
3). Then, the specification item input support unit C is deleted from the search instruction screen (S24), and the process returns to step S9. If the determination result of step S22 is negative, after the processing of step S24, step S9
Return to

In FIG. 10, if the determination result in step S17 is negative, the process proceeds to FIG. 12 and it is determined whether or not there is an instruction input from the drawing display order instructing section D (S25). If so, change the drawing display order to the drawing display order instructing section D.
Display in the key sequence column D1 and the sequence column D2 of (S2
6) and returns to step S9. If the result of the determination in step S25 is negative, it is determined whether or not there is an instruction input from the drawing display key (S27). If the result of the determination is yes, the search result display section B is displayed on the search instruction screen. It is determined whether or not (S28). If the result of the determination is negative, a guidance display to the effect of "erroneous operation" is displayed on the search instruction screen (S2
9) The operator is prompted to search, and the process returns to step S9. Procedure S2
If the determination result of 8 is correct, the display content of the search instruction screen is erased (S30). Then, the drawing display screen divided corresponding to the number of drawings displayed in the display drawing number instruction unit F is displayed (S31).

Next, moving to FIG. 13, the top part number to be displayed in the drawing is determined from the part numbers extracted and displayed in the extracted part number column B2 (S32). Then, after reading the part numbers corresponding to the number of drawings displayed in the number-of-displayed-drawings instructing section F from the determined part numbers (S33), the image information of these part numbers is read from the first storage section 2b and the drawing is executed. The divided screen portion G of the display screen is sequentially displayed (S3
4). Next, it is determined whether or not there is an instruction input from the front and rear drawing instruction keys (S35), and if the result of the determination is yes, the procedure returns to step S33. It is determined whether or not there is an instruction input from (S36). If the determination result is correct, the number of displayed drawings is updated (S37), and then the process returns to step S31. If the determination result is NO, it is determined whether or not the end key of the operation information input unit H has been pressed. (S38), if the determination result is correct, the information on the search instruction screen is restored, the search instruction screen is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 3 (S39), and the process returns to step S9. If the result of the determination in step S38 is negative, step S
Return to 31.

FIG. 14 is a flow chart showing the processing contents of the search subroutine of steps S16 and S19. The operation of the search process will be described with reference to FIG. First, the data to be displayed in the specification item data column A3 of the part name / specification designating section A is RAM.
(S40). If the determination result is correct, the display form of the specification item data column A3 is displayed in black and white reverse (S41). Then, the individual information of the maintenance parts stored in the fourth storage unit 2e is searched for by the data of the specification item, and the extracted individual information of the maintenance parts is updated from the tip of the empty area of the fifth storage unit 2f. And store (S42). If this process ends or if the result of the determination in step S40 is negative, it is determined whether or not the display order data to be displayed in the drawing display order instructing section D is stored in the RAM (S43). If the determination result is correct, the display form of the key order column D1 and the arrangement sequence column D2 representing the stored display order is displayed in black and white inversion (S44). Next, the fifth
The individual information of the maintenance parts in the storage section 2f is rearranged based on the display order displayed in the drawing display order instruction section D (S4).
5). If the determination result in step S43 is negative, the individual information of the maintenance parts in the fifth storage unit 2f is rearranged in the order of the part numbers (S46). When the processing of step S45 or S46 is completed, the table of the search result display section B is displayed on the search instruction screen, and the number of individual information read from the fifth storage section 2f is set as the number of extracted items of the table and the individual maintenance parts are displayed. The part number of the information is displayed in the extracted part number column B2 (S47).

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described in more detail with reference to a specific example. The maintenance part you are searching for is "capacitor", the usage is "power", and the capacity is "75".
A case of searching for “(μF)” will be described. First, in step S1, the menu screen is displayed, and in step S2
Since the end key has not been pressed, the process moves to step S3, and the display of the search instruction screen is instructed, so that the part name / specification instruction section A and the drawing display order instruction section D are displayed on the display screen of the display section 3. A search instruction screen that includes this is displayed. At this time, the content of the work area W-part name is erased, and the value of the number of displayed drawings is set to "3". Next, in step S9, a search command is input by input from the component name.
Since the operator inputs "capacitor" as the part name, the operator writes "condenser" as the data of the work area W-part name, and the part name / specification designation section A
It is displayed in the part name column A1 of. Then, according to step S11, as shown in FIG. 5, in the specification item column A2 of the part name / specification designating section A, the specification item name of "capacitor", that is, "use", "capacity (μF)" and "breakdown voltage ( V) ”is displayed.

Then, in accordance with step S12, the individual information of the maintenance part that matches the input part name "capacitor" is extracted from the data stored in the second storage section 2c, and the fourth storage section 2e and It is stored in the empty area of the fifth storage unit 2f. Then, the procedure returns to step S9, and when the result of the determination is negative, the procedure moves to step S13. Since "capacitor" is written in the work area W-part name, the result of the determination is negative, and step S15 Then, since the instruction input from the search key has not been made yet, the determination result is negative, the procedure moves to step S17, and the instruction input is input from the specification item data column A3 of the part name / specification instruction section A ", The specification item data in the specification item data column A3 is erased from the work area W of the RAM in step S18.

Next, in step S19, the process of the search subroutine is entered, and "for power" in the specification item data column A3 is entered.
Is displayed in black and white in reverse (S40, S41).
Then, the individual information of the maintenance component "capacitor" stored in the fourth storage unit 2e is searched for in the data of the specification item "for power", and the extracted individual information of the maintenance component is the fifth.
Is stored in the storage unit 2f (S42). Next, when the display order of the individual information of the maintenance part “capacitor” stored in the fifth storage unit 2f is instructed in the drawing display order instruction unit D, according to the display order, ,
The parts are sorted in the order of the part numbers (S43 to S46), and the number of individual pieces of information "18" read from the fifth storage unit 2f in the extraction number column of the table of the search result display section B of the search instruction screen is the extracted part number column B2. The part number of the individual information of the maintenance part is displayed on each (S47).

After that, returning to the main routine, the data of the specification item "capacity (μF)" that is instructed and input from the individual information of the maintenance part "capacitor" stored in the fifth storage unit 2f is read, The number of cases for each content of each specification item is extracted (S20). Contents of each specification item extracted (7
5, 100, 150, 200, ...) and the number of cases for each content (3, 5, 5, 3, ...) are listed in the specification item data column C1 of the specification item input support section C in the ascending order of data numbers. It is displayed (S21). Here, the specification item “Capacity (μ
Since the value of “F)” is set to 75, when the instruction input is confirmed in step S22, the content “75 (μF)” of the specification item selected and instructed by the operator is displayed in the part name / specification instruction section A. It is displayed in the specification item data column A3 (S23). Then, it returns to step S9 and repeats the above-mentioned search processing.

In this case, since the number of maintenance parts "capacitors" that have already been searched is 3, the operator presses the drawing display key. Therefore, steps S9 and S1
Steps S3 and S15 are followed by step S17, and the determination result is correct. Further, steps S28 and S30 are followed by step S3.
1, the drawing display screen divided corresponding to the number of drawings displayed in the display drawing number instructing section F is displayed. And
Among the part numbers of the individual information of the maintenance parts displayed in the extracted part number column B2, the top part number to be displayed in the drawing is determined (S32), and the number of drawings to be displayed is selected from the part numbers of the individual information of the above maintenance parts. Number of drawings "3" displayed in indicator F
The component numbers are read out (S33), and the image information of those component numbers is read out from the first storage section 2b and sequentially displayed on the split screen section G of the drawing display screen (S34).
In this case, since the number of retrieved maintenance parts “capacitors” is 3, all the image information of the retrieved maintenance parts, that is, the drawings are displayed in the split screen portion G of the drawing display screen. Therefore, when the operator wants to enlarge the drawing of the displayed maintenance part, the number of drawings displayed in the display drawing number instructing section F is set to "1" to perform the procedure S3.
The number of drawings is updated to "1" in step S37 through step 6, and the drawing of one screen of the maintenance part is displayed in the split screen part G in step S34 after step S31. Therefore, the target maintenance part can be easily specified. become.

[0023]

As described above, according to the present invention, the maintenance part information read out from the storage means is searched by the name of the maintenance part input from the input means and the information of various specifications, and the information is narrowed down. The number of the maintenance parts information is displayed on the display screen together with the names of the maintenance parts and the information of various specifications, and when the display command is input from the input means, the image information of the maintenance parts is displayed on the display screen together with the part number. Since it is displayed sequentially, the operator can immediately know the number of the maintenance parts information narrowed down by the search, so that the image information of the maintenance parts is sequentially displayed on the display screen and the part number of the target maintenance part is displayed. It is possible to perform the work of specifying the extremely efficiently.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an elevator maintenance parts search device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing the contents of image information of maintenance parts for elevators stored in a first storage unit.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the contents of specification information of elevator maintenance parts stored in a second storage unit.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing the contents of elevator maintenance part information stored in a third storage unit.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram illustrating display contents of a search instruction screen displayed on a display unit.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating display contents of a drawing display screen displayed on a display unit.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a drawing image displayed on a split screen portion of the drawing display screen.

[Fig. 8] Flowchart of maintenance component search processing of the maintenance component search device

FIG. 9 is a flowchart of the maintenance parts search process following FIG.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart of a maintenance part search process following FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart of a maintenance part search process following FIG. 10;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a maintenance part search process following FIG. 11;

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of a maintenance part search process following FIG. 12;

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of a search subroutine.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 input unit 2a main storage unit 2b first storage unit 2c second storage unit 2d third storage unit 2e fourth storage unit 2f fifth storage unit 3 display unit 4 output unit 5 control unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A part number of a maintenance part and image information characterizing the maintenance part are stored in advance, and this information is displayed on a display screen so that the part number of the target maintenance part can be specified. In the maintenance parts search device,
It has a storage means for storing in advance the part numbers and names of the individual maintenance parts and various specifications unique to the parts, and stores the information according to the names of the maintenance parts and various specifications inputted from the input means. The maintenance part information read out from the means is searched, and the number of the maintenance part information narrowed down by this is displayed on the display screen together with the name of the maintenance part and information of various specifications, and is narrowed down from the input means. When a command to display the image information of the maintenance parts is input, the image information is sequentially displayed on the display screen together with the part numbers of the maintenance parts.